Hemşin

Hemşin (Armenian: Համշէն (Hamshen) or Համամաշէն (Hamamashen; literally meaning Hamam's Hamlet); also known as Tambur) is a town and district of Rize Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, 57 km from the city of Rize. Hemşin is a district of green hills 19 km inland from the Black Sea. As part of the Rize province, Hemshin had been a refuge for some Cimmerians and was a site of early Greek settlements and once part of the Roman Empire and the succeeding Byzantine Empire. The American historian Robert H. Hewsen shows the region where today's Hemshin is located to be populated by a people with different ethnic background throughout the ancient and early medieval history. He indicates thereby that some designations may have alternative...